inapplicable

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ applicable.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

inapplicable (comparative more inapplicable, superlative most inapplicable)

1. Not applicable; that does not apply or cannot be applied; unsuitable or irrelevant.

   The argument is inapplicable to the case.

   • 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 141:

     In this case, ${\displaystyle y(\cdot )}$ is not single-valued at any price vector allowing for nonzero production, making Hotelling's lemma inapplicable at these prices.

Synonyms

• unapplicable

Derived terms

• inapplicableness
• inapplicably

Translations

not applicable

Bulgarian: неприложим (bg) (nepriložim) Catalan: inaplicable Galician: inaplicable (gl), inaplicábel (gl) German: unpassend (de), ungeeignet (de), unanwendbar Hungarian: alkalmazhatatlan (hu) Korean: 적용할 수 없는 (jeogyonghal su eomneun) Manx: neuchooie, neuyesh Norwegian: Bokmål: uanvendelig Polish: nieodpowiedni (pl) m Romanian: neaplicabil (ro) Spanish: inaplicable (es)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inapplicable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “inapplicable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From in- +‎ applicable.

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Adjective

inapplicable (plural inapplicables)

1. inapplicable

Further reading

• “inapplicable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.